2013 Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law

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USA v. Efraim Diveroli
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14241
USA v. Julius Harrison
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14515
Duckworth v. Allianz Life Ins. Co., et al  
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15778

Justia Opinion Summary: Allianz appealed the district court's grant of judgment in favor of plaintiff on his claim that Allianz miscalculated the monthly benefit to which he was entitled under a long-term disability insurance policy. Allianz…

Patricia Ates-Jackson v. Verizon Wireless (VAW) LLC, et al
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12398
Derrick L. Harris v. Commissioner of Social Security
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12729
Unique Sports Products, Inc v. Ferrari Importing Company
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12829
Majorie Depalis-Lachaud v. Kenneth E. Noel, et al.
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12903
Kristy Schwade v. Total Plastics, Inc.
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13388
USA v. Reshon D. Whittaker
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 10-15814
USA v. Tedrick McKenzie
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 11-11747
USA v. Eva Cruz, et al.
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14043
USA v. Jermaine Mathis
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10076
USA v. W. James Pickett, III
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11190
Antonia Largaespada v. U.S. Attorney General
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11895
Nathaniel Garner v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc.
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12079
Steve Jefferson v. Burger King Corporation
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12540
USA v. Danielle Nicole McCaslin
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12828
Douglass Mann, et al. v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America
Date: January 29, 2013
Docket Number: 12-16445
Sherry Ross v. Jefferson County Department of Health
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14258
USA v. Shannon Denard Jones
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15526
Trade AM International, Inc. v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10486
Cynergy, LLC v. First American Title Ins. Co.  
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10495

Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a land development project dispute where the Retreat took out a short-term purchase loan from a Georgia bank to finance the acquisition of the land. At issue was the district court's interpretation…

LifAng Lin v. U.S. Attorney General
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10730
USA v. Maurice Lavon Johnson
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10794
Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County School Board, et al
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11377
USA v. Steven Richard Kocis
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11838
Scott Lewis, et al v. The City of Kennesaw, Georgia
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12397
Freddie Mitchell, et al v. City of Lafayette
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12556
Amber C. Maughon v. City of Covington, et al.
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12561
Rafael Antonio Lanza-Ramirez v. U.S. Attorney General
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12826
Peter Owens, II v. Commissioner of Social Security
Date: January 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13243
Bailey, et al v. ERG Enterprises, LP, et al  
Date: January 25, 2013
Docket Number: 11-11670

Justia Opinion Summary: Buyers sued Bahamas Sales, and others associated with Bahamas Sales, alleging that they engaged in appraisal fraud. Buyers purchased undeveloped lots in a planned resort in the Bahamas where the purchase contracts…

United States v. Jimenez  
Date: January 25, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15039

Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for intentionally misapplying $5,000 or more from an organization receiving in excess of $10,000 in federal funds in a one-year period, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 666. Defendant argued…

USA v. Terry Jerome Cason
Date: January 25, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11595
St. Joseph Hospital, Augusta, et al v. Health Mgmt. Assoc., Inc.  
Date: January 24, 2013
Docket Number: 11-13069

Justia Opinion Summary: SJH sued HMA for breach of contract and, in the alternative, under the doctrine of promissory estoppel, after HMA reneged on its "promise" to purchase the assets of SJH. By filing the Premerger Notifications, the parties…

Miriam Taylor v. Fulton County, Georgia
Date: January 24, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10052
Geovera Specialty Insurance Company v. Christopher X. Hutchins, et al.
Date: January 24, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10364
Paul A. Acquisto v. Secure Horizons
Date: January 24, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11883
USA v. James Buteau
Date: January 24, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12941
USA v. Charles Dennis britton, Jr.
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10738
USA v. Michael C. Cannida
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12205
Robert Thomas, et al v. Troy R. Brown, et al
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12268
USA v. Keith Gunter
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12415
USA v. Wilner Val Saint
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13378
George Collier v. Commissioner of Social Security
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13669
Grim, Jr. v. Secretary, FL DOC  
Date: January 22, 2013
Docket Number: 11-11890

Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a Florida prison inmate awaiting execution, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. After the district court denied the petition, it issued a certificate of appealability with respect to certain issues. At…

Terry Donnell Watson v. Warden
Date: January 22, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11592
Terry N. Taylor v. Warden
Date: January 22, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11993
Risa Kaplan v. Code Blue Billing & Coding, Inc., et al.
Date: January 22, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12011
Yanno Bevacqua v. Magnetic Medical Management, Inc.
Date: January 22, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12376
Linda O'Neill v. East Florida Eye Institute, P.A.
Date: January 22, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12679
Axis Insurance Company v. Farah & Farah, P.A., et al
Date: January 18, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15867
Anthony B. White v. Creative Hairdressers Inc.
Date: January 18, 2013
Docket Number: 11-16121
Rolando Valdes v. USA
Date: January 18, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12096
USA v. Jose Reynaldo Lopez-Solis
Date: January 18, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13005
John Ted Barefield v. Commissioner of IRS
Date: January 18, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13312
Sims, Jr. v. MVM, Inc.  
Date: January 17, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14481

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff claimed that his former employer discriminated against him on account of his age when it terminated his employment, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. 621 et seq.…

United Fire and Casualty Co. v. Whirlpool Corp.  
Date: January 17, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15011

Justia Opinion Summary: United Fire, as subrogee for Robert and Theresa Corral, brought a strict products liability suit against Whirlpool, alleging that a Whirlpool-manufactured clothes dryer caused a fire in the Corrals' home. United Fire…

USA v. Bidemi Bello
Date: January 17, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15054
Alexis Carrazana v. USA
Date: January 17, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10389
Veronika Kollar v. Thad M. Rhodes
Date: January 17, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10967
Minerva Maria Mendez v. Jarden Corporation, et al.
Date: January 17, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11795
Jose Cristobal Azuaje-Rengel v. U.S. Attorney General
Date: January 17, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12440
Homer Ira Lockhart v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, et al
Date: January 17, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13027
United States v. Hall  
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14698

Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit identity theft and access device fraud; and wrongfully obtaining and transferring individually identifiable health information for personal…

USA v. Nestor Jose Hernandez-Estrada
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15694
USA v. Phil Brown
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11480
Brandy Forsyth v. Commissioner of Social Security
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11523
Lenbro Holding Inc. v. Simon Falic
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11789
USA v. Terrance Jarome Johnson
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12471
USA v. Gaelan Pierre Spruill
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12475
USA v. Kelvin Danford
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13384
Federal Trade Commission v. Bishop, et al  
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13392

Justia Opinion Summary: Codefendants appealed the district court's order awarding damages to the FTC for engaging in deceptive marketing practices, in violation of section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 45(a), and the FTC's…

USA v. Franco Nicholas Padgett
Date: January 15, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14389
Charles L. Stringer v. John Doe, et al
Date: January 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10119
USA v. Alaina Nichole Riggins
Date: January 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10546
Suiko Przedwojewski v. NHS Management, LLC, et al.
Date: January 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11484
Earlene Holmes v. State of Georgia, et al
Date: January 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12126
USA v. Joseph Tyrell Duhon
Date: January 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12195
USA v. Rylan A. Forbes
Date: January 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12319
USA v. Waymon Lynn, Jr.
Date: January 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13303
Tanga Washington v. Social Security Administration, Commissioner
Date: January 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13497
USA v. Chesire Martinez Robinson
Date: January 14, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15878
Charlie John Williams v. Eric A. Bauer, et al
Date: January 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10068
USA v. Antoine Fernand Saint Surin
Date: January 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10597
Bobby Joe Kidd v. Conagra Foods, Inc., et al
Date: January 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10660
Sheryl Harvey v. Standard Insurance Company
Date: January 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11978
USA v. Tiffany Silas
Date: January 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13236
Linda Nelson, et al v. Bayer Corporation, et al
Date: January 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-14164
USA v. Felix Enrique Tomala Cruz
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 11-11922
USA v. Alfredo Julian Hassun
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14800
USA . Tavares Clayborne
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15359
Pauline Moody v. City of Delray Beach, et al
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15808
USA v. Carlos Rodriguez
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11353
USA v. Ivan Antonio Flores
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11587
USA v. Jackie T. Fair
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11880
USA v. Warren Phillips
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12092
USA v. Sail Emiliano Martinez
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12657
USA v. Calvin Godwin
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13164
Elma Sanders v. USA
Date: January 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-14377
Michael A. Render v. Florida Department of Corrections
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 11-12589
Interface Kanner, LLC v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al  
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 11-13579

Justia Opinion Summary: This dispute stemmed from WaMu's lease agreement with Interface, the lessor. WaMu subsequently closed as a "failed bank" and entered into receivership under the direction of the FDIC. The FDIC then entered into a…

USA v. Dominique Just Fields
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 11-13645
Fresenius Medical Care Holding, et al v.Tucker, et al  
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14192

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs challenged Florida's "Patient Self-Referral Act of 1992" (the Florida Act), Fla. Stat. 456.053, which prohibited Florida physicians from referring their patients for services to business entities in which the…

USA v. Jerome E. Williams
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 11-16081
Allen F. Stewart v. Spirit Airlines, Inc., et al
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11120
USA v. Ike Florence, Jr.
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11630
Debbie Lloyd Dash v. Dr. Arthur B. Chasen, et al.
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12203
USA v. Jay Wayne Burch, Jr.
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12865
Lavel Elijah Johnson v. Regions Mortgage, et al.
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13115
USA v. Romain Daniel
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13128
USA v. Oscar R. Quincoces
Date: January 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13368
Michael Duane Zack, III v. Kenneth S. Tucker, et al
Date: January 9, 2013
Docket Number: 09-12717
Stansell, et al v. Mercurio International S.A., et al  
Date: January 9, 2013
Docket Numbers: 11-11125, 11-11690

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs sought damages for terrorist acts committed while they were held hostage in the jungles of Columbia. Plaintiffs suffered repeated acts of international terrorism at the hands of the Revolutionary Armed Forces…

Keith Stansell, et al. v. Mercurio International S.A.
Date: January 9, 2013
Docket Number: 11-11690
Jonathan Hall, et al. v. Dekalb County Government
Date: January 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10101
USA v. Crisanto Diego Trejos Ortiz
Date: January 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10750
USA v. Mike Adams
Date: January 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10827
Eutolio A. Rodriguez, et al. v. Pure Beauty Farms, Inc., et al.
Date: January 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13953
Reginald E. Jones v. Secretary Department of Corrections, et al.
Date: January 8, 2013
Docket Number: 11-10403
Michael Love v. USA
Date: January 8, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15669
USA v. Jeff Junior Holland
Date: January 8, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15949
Solomon Smith v. Warden, FCC Coleman - Low
Date: January 8, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10049
USA v. Sherry Darlene McDaniel, et al.
Date: January 8, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10685
USA v. Daniel Edwin Warwick
Date: January 8, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10792
USA v. Trevor Miller
Date: January 8, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11369
USA v. Michael Anthony Mitchell, Jr.
Date: January 8, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11945
USA v. Andre Delaney Thompson
Date: January 8, 2013
Docket Number: 12-13790
John Gomez, et al. v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc.
Date: January 7, 2013
Docket Number: 10-10406
Lobo, et al v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc., et al  
Date: January 7, 2013
Docket Numbers: 10-13623, 10-10406

Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved claims brought by cabin stewards against their employer, Celebrity Cruises, and against the Union (FIT) that represented them. Because the stewards were foreign employees involved in an internal wage…

United States v. McIntosh  
Date: January 7, 2013
Docket Number: 10-15894

Justia Opinion Summary: Due to a technical error in the original indictment and a more substantial mistake by the government in its handling of that error, no indictment was pending against defendant at the time of his sentencing. This caused…

Peter E. Wicher v. John Does, 1-5, et al.
Date: January 7, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14625
Young Apartments, Inc., et al v. Town of Jupiter, Florida, et al
Date: January 7, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15618
Wydell Evans v. Secretary, DOC
Date: January 4, 2013
Docket Number: 10-14920
Zhu v. U.S. Attorney General  
Date: January 4, 2013
Docket Number: 11-13266

Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of the People's Republic of China, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision denying him asylum and ordering him removed. At issue was whether the BIA erred when it overturned the IJ's…

USA v. Allen Mark Levinson
Date: January 4, 2013
Docket Number: 11-13268
USA v. Pedro Perez
Date: January 4, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15906
Freeman W. Stone v. Commissioner of Social Security
Date: January 4, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11763
Earaton Adams, et al. v. Austal, USA, LLC
Date: January 4, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11983
Absolute Trading Corp. v. Bariven S.A.
Date: January 4, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12234
United States v. Garcia-Sandobal  
Date: January 3, 2013
Docket Number: 11-12196

Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to unlawful reentry to the United States and was sentenced to 87 months of imprisonment. Defendant contended that the district court erred when it accepted his guilty plea and enhanced his sentence…

USA v. Rogelio Torres
Date: January 3, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14199
United States v. Petite  
Date: January 3, 2013
Docket Number: 11-14996

Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and was sentenced to 188 months' imprisonment. At issue was whether defendant's prior conviction for intentional vehicular flight from an authorized law…

Sheldon B. Ashmore v. Secretary, Department of Transportation
Date: January 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10515
Granite State Insurance Company, et al v. KB Home, Inc., et al
Date: January 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10979
Carolyn Chavez v. URS Federal Technical Services, Inc., et al
Date: January 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11037
USA v. Henry James Jackson
Date: January 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11510
Olivia Monroe v. Commissioner of Social Security
Date: January 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-11785
USA v. Elijah Nahum Simmons
Date: January 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12464
LNV Corporationi v. George A. Maib, et al
Date: January 2, 2013
Docket Number: 10-13737
USA v. Ronald Hammons
Date: January 2, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15467
William M. Barry v. Beth A. Barry
Date: January 2, 2013
Docket Number: 11-15653
USA v. Jaime Zavala-Munoz
Date: January 2, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10760
USA v. Thomas Grove, Jr.
Date: January 2, 2013
Docket Number: 12-10907
USA v. James Thomas Withrow
Date: January 2, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12086
USA v. Brenda Carter
Date: January 2, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12923
USA v. Todd Jackson, Jr.
Date: January 2, 2013
Docket Number: 12-12942

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